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"Free of the taint of manufacture" - that phrase, in particular, is heavily loaded with the ideology of what the Victorian socialist William Morris called the "anti-scrape", or an anticapitalist conservationism (not conservatism) ... popular themes during the second wave of folk revivalism It reinforced Cecil Sharp's observation about folk's constant transformation

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"Free of the taint of manufacture" - that phrase, in particular, is heavily loaded with the ideology of what the Victorian socialist William Morris called the "anti-scrape", or an anticapitalist conservationism (not conservatism) that ... veneer the notion of folk has led to several debates and disagreements of its nostalgic association with a pre-industrial past

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Contemporary internet shopping conjures a perfect storm of choice anxiety. Research has consistently held that people who are presented with a few options make better, easier decisions than those presented with many$\dots$ Helping consumers figure out what to ... to They are exceptions to a dominant trend in consumer markets They are increasing the purchasing power of poor Americans

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Contemporary internet shopping conjures a perfect storm of choice anxiety. Research has consistently held that people who are presented with a few options make better, easier decisions than those presented with many.$\dots$Helping consumers figure out what ... catalogue With the motive of promoting certain companies, the government decides to double the tax-rates for these start-ups

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Contemporary internet shopping conjures a perfect storm of choice anxiety. Research has consistently held that people who are presented with a few options make better, easier decisions than those presented with many$\dots$Helping consumers figure out what to ... companies that hired lifestyle influencers on Instagram for marketing their products were $40$% less than those that did not

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Contemporary internet shopping conjures a perfect storm of choice anxiety. Research has consistently held that people who are presented with a few options make better, easier decisions than those presented with many$\dots$Helping consumers figure out ... many product options can be overwhelming for consumers consumers are susceptible to marketing images that they see on social media

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Contemporary internet shopping conjures a perfect storm of choice anxiety. Research has consistently held that people who are presented with a few options make better, easier decisions than those presented with many. . . . Helping consumers figure out what to buy amid an endless sea of choice ... between $\$ 10$ and $\$ 25$ A range of $25$ products priced between $\$ 5$ and $\$ 10$

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"Free of the taint of manufacture" - that phrase, in particular, is heavily loaded with the ideology of what the Victorian socialist William Morris called the "anti-scrape", or an anticapitalist conservationism (not conservatism) ... each change The plurality and democratising impulse of folk forms emanate from the improvisation that its practitioners bring to it

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"Free of the taint of manufacture" - that phrase, in particular, is heavily loaded with the ideology of what the Victorian socialist William Morris called the "anti-scrape", or an anticapitalist conservationism (not conservatism) that solaced ... in folk, can later be seen as conformist that despite its archaic origins, folk continues to remain a popular tradition

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In the past, credit for telling the tale of Aladdin has often gone to Antoine Galland $\dots$the first European translator of $\dots$ ... s travelogue The story-line of many French fairy tales of the $18$th century Galland's acknowledgment of Diyab in his diary

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In the past, credit for telling the tale of Aladdin has often gone to Antoine Galland $\dots$the first European translator of $\dots$Arabian Nights [which] started as a series of translations of an incomplete manuscript of a medieval Arabic story ... stories Galland derived the story of Aladdin from Diyab's travelogue in which he recounts his fascination with the wealth of Versailles

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In the past, credit for telling the tale of Aladdin has often gone to Antoine Galland $\dots$the first European translator of $\dots$Arabian Nights [which] started as a series of translations of an incomplete manuscript of a medieval Arabic story ... documents the history of Europe and Middle East The archetype of the rags-to-riches story of Aladdin makes it popular even today

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In the past, credit for telling the tale of Aladdin has often gone to Antoine Galland $\dots$the first European translator of $\dots$Arabian Nights [which] started as a series of translations of an incomplete manuscript of a medieval Arabic story ... in his travelogue Diyab's narration of the original story to Galland Diyab's description of the wealth of Versailles in his travelogue

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In the past, credit for telling the tale of Aladdin has often gone to Antoine Galland$\dots$the first European translator of $\dots$Arabian Nights [which] started as a series of translations of $\dots$ an incomplete manuscript of a medieval Arabic ... the tale of Aladdin The description of opulence in Hanna Diyab's and Antoine Galland's narratives bore no resemblance to each other

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Scientists recently discovered that Emperor Penguins-one of Antarctica's most celebrated species-employ a particularly unusual technique for surviving the daily chill. As detailed in an article published today in the journal Biology Letters, the birds minimize ... the heat radiated out from penguins' bodies AND the fall in temperature of the surrounding air after thermal convection

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Scientists recently discovered that Emperor Penguins-one of Antarctica's most celebrated species-employ a particularly unusual technique for surviving the daily chill. As detailed in an article published today in the journal Biology Letters, the birds ... body colder helps penguins keep their plumage warmer Heat gain through radiation happens despite the heat loss through convection

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Scientists recently discovered that Emperor Penguins-one of Antarctica's most celebrated species-employ a particularly unusual technique for surviving the daily chill. As detailed in an article published today in the journal Biology Letters, the ... the following can be responsible for Emperor Penguins losing body heat? Reproduction process Thermal convection Food metabolism Plumage

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Scientists recently discovered that Emperor Penguins-one of Antarctica's most celebrated species-employ a particularly unusual technique for surviving the daily chill. As detailed in an article published today in the journal Biology ... are beneficial point to the strategic advantages of ambiguity, and organizations' potential to differentiate themselves from competitors________

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Scientists recently discovered that Emperor Penguins-one of Antarctica's most celebrated species-employ a particularly unusual technique for surviving the daily chill. As detailed in an article published today in the journal Biology Letters, the birds minimize heat ... the penguins' plumage were made of a material that did not allow any heat transfer through convection or radiation

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Scientists recently discovered that Emperor Penguins-one of Antarctica's most celebrated species-employ a particularly unusual technique for surviving the daily chill. As detailed in an article published today in the journal Biology Letters, the birds minimize heat ... norm will arise where it is considered unacceptable to reply with the same point that dozens of others have already

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Scientists recently discovered that Emperor Penguins-one of Antarctica's most celebrated species-employ a particularly unusual technique for surviving the daily chill. As detailed in an article published today in the journal Biology Letters, the birds ... is a mathematical algorithm by which correlations and cooccurrences of behaviors are tracked and then used to make recommendations

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Scientists recently discovered that Emperor Penguins-one of Antarctica's most celebrated species-employ a particularly unusual technique for surviving the daily chill. As detailed in an article published today in the journal Biology Letters, the birds ... mistranslate metaphors from one language to another, revealing in the process our hidden assumptions about what we really value

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Scientists recently discovered that Emperor Penguins-one of Antarctica's most celebrated species-employ a particularly unusual technique for surviving the daily chill. As detailed in an article published today in the journal Biology Letters, the birds minimize ... -reading varies across cultures, depends heavily on certain parts of the brain, and is subject to developmental disorders

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Scientists recently discovered that Emperor Penguins-one of Antarctica's most celebrated species-employ a particularly unusual technique for surviving the daily chill. As detailed in an article published today in the journal Biology Letters, the birds minimize heat loss ... Thoughts precede all speech acts and these thoughts pop up in our heads even in the absence of any stimulus

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Scientists recently discovered that Emperor Penguins-one of Antarctica's most celebrated species-employ a particularly unusual technique for surviving the daily chill. As detailed in an article published today in the journal Biology Letters, the birds ... produce a successful result Engineering and physics fundamentally differ on matters like building a bridge or a nuclear reactor

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Scientists recently discovered that Emperor Penguins-one of Antarctica's most celebrated species-employ a particularly unusual technique for surviving the daily chill. As detailed in an article published today in the journal Biology Letters, the birds ... motivations of consumers and works at the supraliminal level, though the people targeted have no awareness of being persuaded

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Scientists recently discovered that Emperor Penguins-one of Antarctica's most celebrated species-employ a particularly unusual technique for surviving the daily chill. As detailed in an article published today in the journal Biology Letters, the ... hearing impairments encountered marginalization because it was believed that language could only be learned by hearing the spoken word___

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Scientists recently discovered that Emperor Penguins-one of Antarctica's most celebrated species-employ a particularly unusual technique for surviving the daily chill. As detailed in an article published today in the journal Biology Letters, the birds minimize heat ... embodied symbols To gain the suffix was to acquire a proud and optimistic emblem of the electronic and atomic age____

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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Passage $1$: It is essential to rid ourselves of the false impressions of time, which our human limitations seem to impose upon us. Above all, we must rid ourselves of the belief ... phenomenon existing only within the human mind The future is not in any way less determined than the past All of the above

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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow. Passage $1$: It is essential to rid ourselves of the false impressions of time, which our human limitations seem to impose upon us. Above all, we must rid ourselves of the ... false imposition of human limitation there is nothing with respect to which time could move the future is better determined than the past

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Find the incorrect usage of the word in the following questions: CALL She payed him a call from the pay phone near her home I will call on you tomorrow evening at $7$ pm Vikram decided to call a meeting to discuss the trade fair She felt the call of religion early in her life

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Find the incorrect usage of the word in the following questions SOMBRE He was dressed in sombre shades of grey and black Paul was in a sombre mood The year ended on a sombre note He is in the sombre position of not having to worry about money

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Find the incorrect usage of the word in the following questions TIME I can remember very few times when we had to cancel due to ill health This is the first time that I have been to London The train arrived right on time The changing seasons mark the passing of time

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Find the incorrect usage of the word in the following questions: STOP The car stopped at the traffic light Shantaram immediately stopped what he was doing We need more laws to stop pollution He is stopped by law from holding a licence

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Find the incorrect usage of the word in the following questions: SLAM I heard the door slam behind him She slammed down the phone angrily She slammed his face hard The ear skidded and slammed into a tree

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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions based on that. Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature but which it cannot answer, as ... forays to within its known limitations? How does the human mind attempt to resolve problems beyond its scope? None of the above

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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions based on that. Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature but which ... as the solution to human misery the modern day contempt for metaphysical reasoning the subjugation of science by a transcendental human consciousness

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Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions based on that. Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature but which it ... old questions, tackles new ones that arise employs principles that transcend the limits of experience rises to higher and more remote conditions

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The following question has a paragraph from which a sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. Jurisprudence is the theory and philosophy of law. Students of Jurisprudence aim ... of jurisprudence Jurisprudence seeks to draw on unrestricted elements of life and the world to aid the critical study of law

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The following question has a paragraph from which a sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. RD Laing developed a broad range of thought on interpersonal psychology. This deals with ... and not to be referred to by the preferred euphemisms of the drug companies,who prefer to call them side effects .

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